Merry meet all,
Wow! My garden is so beautiful and lush, rich with green verdant life! I just strolled through it and wrote on a chart was growing well. I decided to make that my post. So here it is!
The witch hazel grew bigger this year. The ferns claimed lordship over the dark spot of the garden. I am letting them grow wild there, because that makes great ground cover. The hosta plants there are growing well too. I transplanted Solomon’s seal and I spied new leaves on the stems. Broad leaved dock is growing well too. The astilbe are sporting new buds and the lungwort flowered beneath the witch hazel. It was just lovely. Lungwort comes back bigger and better every year.
The tickseed is showing lovely orange- yellow flowers. I plan to save the seeds. The purple coneflower has nice leaves so far. The lady’s mantle by the back door is growing quite nicely and showing new flowers and buds which will emerge soon. The buds of the tiger lilies are coming up. I am not sure about the Asiatic lilies. The calendula is slow but coming along, as well as the heliopsis and the red clover. The bleeding heart survived the transplant. It has grown bigger this year! The mullein is tucked in beneath the large rhubarb leaves. Dandelions are everywhere and the periwinkle is growing nicely on its own too.
I hope my elecampane flowers this year. It’s sporting new leaf growth. Bees are busy pollinating the comfrey. I planted nasturtiums all over the garden as I do every year. They are taking off and will soon show their lovely flowers. The sage I started from seed is much bigger now and the lovage is taller. The other herbs growing well are lavender, lemon balm, chives, mint, parsley, and woodruff. Dill, oregano, chamomile, rosemary and purple sager recent newcomers to the garden. I hope the thyme comes back. I potted up the thyme, cut it back and added fresh soil. I just bought 2 pickling cucumber plants. I set them by the large box and put a plant support there. I want the nasturtiums and the cucumber plants to grow up the plant supports.
The pumpkin plants are growing well. The rhubarb is showing off its big leaves. I added a pepper plant, tomatoes started from seed, scarlet runner beans, green beans, purple beans, potatoes, kale, winter squash and leeks. I hope all the veggies grow well. I have root veggies – radish, turnips, etc., in a box. The potatoes are growing in the large black cloth bag with beans. Beans and potatoes are companion plants and I hope that this deters the raccoons. The scarlet runner beans are germinating! The root veggies green tops are showing now. Soon I will thin them out. I just planted a chunk of ginger in the box with the root veggies.
The haskap berries hung on to the stems during the rainstorm. They are still green. I enjoyed one purple/ blue haskap. I can’t wait to harvest more. Same goes for the strawberries. The blueberry plant is flowering. I hope the second blueberry plant flowers soon. The raspberry plants are up but not flowering yet. Soon they will.
Every insect in creation is helping my plants grow or warring with other insects. The garden teems with life. It is so rich and lush out there. I enjoy being in my garden. It is such a stress relief. I do remember to wear insect repellent. I have to get sunscreen too. Protect yourselves, people! I look forward to hearing how your gardens are doing. Let me know in the comments below.
Blessings, Spiderwitch
